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Re-enchanting the Human in the Age of AI: 5 Irreplaceable Human Beings
What AI can simulate, these humans embody: fragility, risk, truth, and sacred meaning.
Designing a Regenerative Cultural Economy
“When values-aligned actors begin to acquire digital works from the Art Stoke Commons ecosystem, they don’t just support individual artists – they validate a new logic of cultural production. Each successful Hive becomes a proof-of-concept. Each replication, a new node in a growing network of islands of coherence. If it works in South Africa where the wounds of inequality and…
Why South African Digital Art Needs Its Own Space
“In a country where the need to rewrite the past is still urgent, digital art should not be reduced to tokenized pixels. It should be part of a national cultural ecosystem that allows truth, disruption, and ordinary complexity to emerge.”
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Dream Technologies and Ancestral Images: Reimagining Digital Art as Cultural Repair
“Nice Aunties’ work hints at a future for digital art that is more human, more ritualised, and more ancestrally grounded. Cobb and Slattery provide the philosophical scaffolding; Khoi and San traditions offer the ethical and imaginal inheritance; dream technologies, fictional or real, show how images are medicine. What emerges is a powerful proposition: digital art can become a contemporary dream cave—an imaginal commons for healing, memory, and cultural repair.”
Composting the Bypass: Entanglement, Grief, and the Pitfalls of Post-Anthropocentric Movements
Are some post-anthropocentric movements — from mycelial networks to rhizomatic thinking, biomimicry to planetary intelligence — bypassing cultural healing by retreating into nature metaphors?
The Corruption of Academia: How Highly Educated Professionals Fail Society
This is not an argument against education—but against its hollowing out. Against the idea that credentials equal credibility. Against the polite and polished consensus that keeps us circling the same failing paradigms.
